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Quiara Alegria Hudes had no plans to write a trilogy after she completed her play, "Elliot: A Soldier's Fugue," which went on the be a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in 2007. Hudes went on to other projects, including the Broadway musical "In the Heights," where she was nominated for a Tony Award (and which was also a finalist for a Pulitzer). "But then I started missing the work and the collaboration I had with 'Elliot,' "says the 33-year-old playwright recently in Hartford. She started thinking again of her protagonist - a young Puerto Rican man from Philadelphia who returns from the...

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